How much revenue did Skeletos Sword make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Skeletos Sword sell?

Q: How many copies did Skeletos Sword sell?

719 to 1k copies, based on its 29 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 719–1k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut; from 29 reviews (Mixed)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Skeletos Sword and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Skeletos Sword's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 355k–1.2M

best case 1.7M (FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE)

Games like Skeletos Sword

A typical game among these

≈ 355k–1.2M copies

≈ $5.2M–$18.1M after Steam's cut

from ~15k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $14.5M–$39.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 11 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action-Adventure (8 of 8) and Action RPG (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + JRPG, priced around $40.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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